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ITC targets Gen Y with trees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... could be used to make voluntary HEC repayments which also attracts a 10 per cent government bonus payment. Kim Cowie, technical services manager at ITC, said by deferring the receipt of taxable income for a number of years, that person could use the ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
What do you get when you fall in love (with stocks)? A person with a pin to burst your bubble. That's what you get for all your trouble. Yesterday I warned that the equity markets' advance had been too fast and running too far ahead of economic fundamentals. ...

FPA upgrades CPD program

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... deputy chief executive and head of professionalism, Deen Sanders. "It is also vindication of our view that compliance and technical education alone does not make you a professional," he said."Rather than simply create higher barriers, we deliberately ...

SPAA reloads for 2009

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... audit and professional standards committee which will start work in May and appointed Peter Burgess as the association's technical director. Burgess will work two days a week at SPAA. The association's 'egg' advertising campaign is also under review. ...

ATO targets early access and in-house rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... benefits which were suspected of being released early in the past six months. The ATO is continuing to provide "extensive technical assistance" to help trustees meet their obligations, D'Ascenzo said. Also, the ATO is releasing a four part education ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... say this, markets would again find a thousand and one excuses to sell. Australia - with one foot inside the grave of a technical recession - has a particular vested interest in seeing China succeeding in reviving its economy. But the Chinese medicine ...

In planners we trust

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Trust and familiarity are often more valued by clients than advisers' technical expertise particularly in today's volatile market, according to Professional Investment Services. Tom Lawton, ex-Wallabies player and group manager, international business ...

SuperCentral hires Negline

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... "SuperCentral fixes two headaches for advisers and accountants in the SMSF space - compliance and costs." Negline is the technical services editor at Financial Standard, spearheading Rainmaker's technical services library, CPD service and editing The ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... unemployment rate could reach 6.2 per cent, a reversal of the trend pre-subprime. "What we'll see is Australia being in technical recession in the first half of this year." Meanwhile, Don Stammer, who told the audience that he has been through not one ...

Investor knowledge fuels SMSF growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... year's SPAA conference in Adelaide. Commencing 10th March, the SPAA conference will feature specialist sessions covering technical issues and challenges facing the SMSF industry, including tax dangers in SMSF planning and strategies, perspectives from ...